About John.

John Bowe is an executive communication and presentation coach in New York City, and the award-winning author of I Have Something to Say (Random House, 2020). He helps CEOs and management teams prepare for high-stakes financial presentations, including IPO roadshows, M&A sell-side management presentations and investor meetings. He coaches executives through the interviews and meetings that shape their careers. He coached the management team through the presentation for the $6.5 billion BlueTriton and Primo Water merger.

Before coaching, John spent two decades as a journalist. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the opinion section of The New York Times, GQ and This American Life, and is the author of numerous books. He contributes regularly to CNBC on public speaking. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, and he has appeared on CNN, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the BBC.

He has given talks at the New York Public Library, the 92nd Street Y and many companies and organizations. His method comes from the speech training taught by Aristotle and Cicero, which he spent years adapting to the demands of modern professional life. He lives in New York City.

What makes me different?

I spend little or no time on diagnosis. Why point out your faults in a skill you were never taught how to do? Skipping that step saves 10 to 15 percent of your time and money, and allows us to go straight to work on your upcoming project or presentation.

I work on the content first. Two decades as a journalist taught me how to take complicated material and make it clear, so I get into the actual words with you. The story, the structure, the word choice, the slides and how it all flows. Then we work on voice and delivery. Working on delivery while the content is weak is putting the cart before the horse. When the content is clear and streamlined, delivery gets much easier.

I work fast. My clients are in a hurry, so I keep engagements short and respect their time.

I don’t teach confidence. I teach a method that will work for you and make public speaking easier. Once you know how to shape your ideas so they are easy to deliver, and you begin to see how that reliably, consistently allows you to naturally connect with the people in the room, you will feel confident, and away you go.